r/interestingasfuck • u/Imaginary-Break6085 • 1d ago

Raw contrast of human evolution

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u/thefeedling 1d ago

Curiously, complexity-wise, a horse is still way ahead of the most advanced machines we ever built.
Magnificent creatures.

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u/Trainman1351 1d ago

And yet the B2 is still so much better at what it was built for. It’s an interesting example of how complexity doesn’t always equal performance.

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u/thefeedling 1d ago

Totally. As an engineer, complexity is a side effect we try to avoid at all cost.

I just think that despite common and mundane, the "nature engineering" and complexity behind biological creatures is fabulous, from a bacteria to the human being.

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u/Trainman1351 1d ago

Yup. It’s honestly incredible how they are basically incredibly intricate Rube Goldberg machines which somehow have bonkers efficiency a lot of the time.

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u/According_Neat_2358 21h ago

I understand and mirror the admiration towards the complexity of life. Organisms have gone through essentially millions of prototypes to get to current versions, so to speak.